Dawei Zhou
Senior Data Scientist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDawei Zhou is a Senior Data Scientist with eight years of cross-industry experience applying statistics, finance and AI to drive measurable business outcomes in insurance, banking and aerospace. At Aviva Canada he leads cloud-native AI initiatives—most notably a pricing platform projected to generate $1.3B over three years—while building scalable pipelines, predictive models and executive dashboards. He combines hands-on skills in Python, SQL, Spark and Azure/GCP with product-minded delivery, having led scrum teams and developed model monitoring suites. His background in mathematics, business administration and an Applied AI certificate from McGill, plus CFA Level II progress, enables him to bridge technical rigor with commercial strategy. A former data engineer and analyst, he brings pragmatic engineering discipline to ML productionization and mentorship.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Honours Commerces, Commerces, DEC Honours Commerces, Commerces at Marianopolis CollegeBachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Finance at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityCFA InstituteIntensive Chinese Program, Chinese Language and Literature, Intensive Chinese Program, Chinese Language and Literature at Shanghai UniversityProfessional Development Certificate in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Professional Development Certificate in Applied Artificial Intelligence at McGill University School of Continuing StudiesBMath, Statistics, BMath, Statistics at University of Waterloo
English, French
Github Skills (7)
citations5
python4
google-scholar4
pythonic3
gaussian1
machine-learning1
lda1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dawei-Z/GLDA-with-BERT-word-embedding
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 7 months
dawei-Z/automatic_evaluation
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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